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A 10-Gb/s low-power inverter-based optical receiver front-end in 0.13-μm CMOS process

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INTEGRATION-THE VLSI JOURNAL
Volume 94, Issue -, Pages -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.vlsi.2023.102104

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Optical receiver; Front-end; Transimpedance amplifier; Inverter; Feed-forward compensation

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In the design of CMOS optical receivers, it is challenging to balance the bandwidth, noise, and gain of the transimpedance amplifier (TIA). This study proposes a 5-stage cascaded TIA to improve performance without using bandwidth expansion techniques.
In the design of CMOS optical receivers, it is challenging to compromise the bandwidth, noise, and gain of the transimpedance amplifier (TIA). The inverter-based cascaded structure is often used in TIA designs. However, the traditional 3-stage TIA needs bandwidth expansion techniques to get good performance. In the designed front-end, we propose a 5-stage cascaded TIA that achieves performance improvement without using bandwidth expansion technique. Besides, the stability of the main amplifier (MA) is improved by adopting a feed-forward compensation technique. Designed in a 0.13-mu m CMOS process, the proposed front-end exhibits a bandwidth root of 8.9 GHz, a transimpedance gain of 123.5 dB omega and an average input-referred noise of 12.2 pA/ Hz. The whole circuit consumed 19.1 mW from mixed input of 1 V and 1.5 V supply voltages.

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